How fake accounts sowed mass confusion in the immediate aftermath of the Gaza hospital blast
A fake IDF Facebook account and a fake Al Jazeera journalist both went viral.
On Oct 18, 2023 by Katherine Huggins
‘This report is a cause for serious concern’: Stanford professor under fire after telling Jewish students to sit in corner in Palestine exercise
‘We encourage you to approach one another with a spirit of compassion.’
On Oct 17, 2023 by Kahron Spearman
‘Simping for Islam’: War between Israel and Palestine divides America’s far-right trolls
‘Why on earth is Israel bombing and flattening the Gaza strip?’
On Oct 17, 2023 by Claire Goforth
Passionfruit newsletter: Content feels trivial right now
You might be feeling like ‘content’ is pointless right now, or worse, in disregard for the ongoing global humanitarian crisis.
On Oct 17, 2023 by Grace Stanley
‘Monstrous evil’: Tech CEO’s summit boycotted after his comments on Hamas and Israel
Cosgrave made a series of social media posts regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict.
‘Meta definitely needs to address this’: Instagram user says the phrase ‘Palestinian’ in his bio was briefly translated to ‘Palestinian terrorist’
The TikToker said the glitch was fixed almost immediately after her flagged it.
On Oct 17, 2023 by Marlon Ettinger
‘Relentless bullying’: Harvard alum group asks for donations to help students’ mental health after they blamed Israel for Hamas attacks
The ripple effects of the initial statement were significant.
Israeli PM office deletes ‘children of darkness’ post after backlash over ‘dehumanizing, genocidal’ language
The account did not explain why the post was deleted.
On Oct 17, 2023 by David Covucci
‘No evidence’ pro-Palestinian hackers stole Iron Dome data IBM says, despite claims online
The group is not the first to make such claims.
On Oct 17, 2023 by Mikael Thalen
‘Eradicate this from our country’: Conservatives join together to demand college students be deported for protesting Israel
A growing number of Republicans want to deport people for free speech.
On Oct 17, 2023 by Katherine Huggins
AOC slams DeSantis’ ‘incredibly destructive and dangerous’ claim all Gazans are antisemitic
‘We just had a six-year-old boy stabbed 26 times this morning because of rhetoric like that.’
‘Hi Gigi, [this] is for you,’: Israel launches Instagram story offensive against Gigi Hadid over her support for Palestine
Hadid and her sister Bella have posted in support of Palestine in the past
On Oct 16, 2023 by Marlon Ettinger
How an image of an Israeli baby shared by Ben Shapiro got hit with false accusations it was AI-generated
The problem isn’t just fake news. X is even casting doubt on legitimate content.
On Oct 16, 2023 by Mikael Thalen
‘Just a member of Congress retweeting fake pics’: Ilhan Omar shares decade-old image of deceased Syrian children attributed to Israel-Palestine war
The image was used in a 2013 National Geographic story about Syrian children killed by chemical weapon poisoning.
On Oct 16, 2023 by Katherine Huggins
‘Now is not the time to turn a blind eye’: TikTok influencer blasted for urging people to ‘look away’ from situation in Gaza for their own mental health
‘The only thing that they want is somebody to bear witness and not forget them.’
On Oct 15, 2023 by Braden Bjella
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